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ClassName

Posted by Mahesh on August 29, 2000 at 9:19 PM

You can not refer to 'this' in a static method because they
do not have a 'this' reference..
Use .getClass().getName() instead.
Should work then.

> here's an example:

> private static String testMethod() {
> String output = this.getClass().getName();
> return output;
> }

> and this method should return the name of the class as a String.
> I can't just type in the classname because its prone to be changed alot, and we don't want to find every place the name is written and change it, so I need this little bit of code to return whatever the class name currently happens to be.
> Unfortunately, 'this' cannot be referenced from a static context, and so this method will not compile. So if you know an alternative to this.getClass().getName() that will return the classname as a string, let me know! Thanx.